Razor.



1. THoMAs.

N RAZOR. APPLICATION FILED NOV.13.1`914.

' Patented June 20, 1916.

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JAMES Trioiiias,\

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u Application ledciovember 13, w14. Serial No. 871,998. To all whom t may concern; A' c Be it known that l, JAMES THOMAS, incitizen of the United States, residing at Chi;

cago, in the county of Cook and Stateotk` Illinois,have invented new and usefullmprovements in Razors, of which the following is a specification.

This inventiorirelates to improvements in razors, the object of the inventionh being to provide an improved -forin of razorewliich may be used instead of the ordinary razor or of any of the usual forms of safety rar and which possesses advantages over all of such razors and is adapted to be used like an ordinary razorand is at the same time .rendered safe.

The invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

Qin the accompanying drawingsic Figure 1 is an elevation of a azor constructed in accordance with my invention and slioxing the guard open and disclosing the bl'ei Fig 2 is a similar view ofthe siiine\sl io\v ing the guard extended from the handleand closed and'sliowing the razor in condition for use. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of the saine. Fig'. Je is a transverse sectional view of the same. Fig. 5 isa detail elevation of the blade showing the reverse :i c sine tlieieoI fiom that disclosed in Fig. l.

The handle l is of the usual construction, bifurcated to receive the guard 2. The guard is shaped like an ordinary iazorblade and comprises a iuain member 3 and a meniber if." rillie inain member has a shank 5 which is pii'oted in the bifurcated end of the handle as at 6 and hence the guard, together with the blade which it carries may bc opened from the handle or closed ltherein, like an ordinary razor blade, as will be iin-` derstood. v'lh'e main member 3 of the 'guard has a flat inner side 7 and is provided at its outer end. and also at the inner-end of its widened portion with flanges 8, which extend transversely from its plane or fiat surface 7 and are provided in their opposing sides with channels 9. The guard inembei' 4 corresponds substantially in shape with the member 2 excepting that it is somewhat shorter and has a shorter shank ,10. Said shank l0 is pivotcd on one side of the shank 5 of the main member of the guard as at 11 and the ends of the broadened portion of said member 4 are adapted to fit in the channels 9 when said member is closed against 4flhe said member 3 is provided .inner side with a longitudinal 'oppositely arranged cned portion thereof:

0 The blade 13 is thin and 'dat on opposite sides and is here shown as provided with straight or nearly straight cutting A edges ist.

be readily placed against the fiat side oii the guard member 3 between the .flanges 5, with either of its cutting edges projecting beyond the inner side of the .guard and the said blade is provided on one sidewith a cenu trally arranged longitudinal tongue i5:

which is engaged with the groove iQAto hold the blade in place between the members or" the guard. The blade may be readily removed froin the guard and another substituted orrcversed so as to present another cutting' edge and in practice a number of blades will be used successively and the blades will be furnished to the trade already sharpened and honed so that no blade need ever be used on more than one person. Hence while the razor may be used by barbers and.

others in exactly the same way as an ordinary razor, which many persons prefer, a patron of a barber shop that he will be shaved with a blade not used on any other person. Hence my improved razor is pacticallyvsanitary and it is oblrions that it may `very readily be lie-pt clean.

Having thus described my invention, ll claimi- 'in aY device ot' the character described, in combination a. bifurcated handle., a guard having/a shank pivotally connected in, said bifurcatcd handle. said 'guard being1 com posed of two sections, said sections having; the configuration of a razor blade., each oi? said sections having an inner substantially flat inclined surface, one of said sections beingl shaped so as to have its inner surface spaced from. the inner surface of the op posite section to provide a blade recess, one of said sections being provided with a longitudinal groove adjacent one longitudinal edge thereof, a blade having' a longitudinal rib substantially at a. median line adapted to take into said groove each side of the blade 1 lie length oil' the blade is such that the saine is adapted 'to may be assured opposite said rib being of a lesser Width ehan the relatively longer plane of the blade receiving 1'ecess, whereby to have its edge spaced -ifi-oni the inner edge of `the recess,

f the shortest shank formed upon one of said sections, said {i1-st named Shank having aJ i'eoess in which the shortest shank is reeeived, and transverse flanges curved at the opposite ends of the other section, said flanges providing channels in which the flanges being formed concave and lie opp@n site ends of the pivotal section being formed convex whereby the inter-engagement of said convex edges and seid flanges will hold said pivotal sections frieionelly against separation., and whereby seid pivotal sections may bind against the blade.

1n testimony whereof l ailiix my signetuie in presence ol two Witnesses.

JAMES THOMAS. 

